Residents have contacted me about speeding traffic on Ward End Park Road.
So I'm asking for your help. Please fill in the survey below to let me know how big you think the problem has now become?
Liam Byrne will today say the Tory Mayor of the West
Midlands has missed a huge opportunity to declare a Climate Emergency and put
in place a Green New Deal to tackle spiralling youth unemployment.
The Tory mayor, Andy Street, today launches his local industrial strategy - without any timetable to deliver a carbon neutral region and no plan to tackle youth unemployment which has soared by 18% in the last year.
Dear James,
Please pay over the money agreed for house building.
We have a housing and homelessness crisis in our region. Homelessness is soaring and we are building affordable homes so slowly it will take until 2052 to clear waiting lists for council waiting lists. But when the West Midlands Combined Authority was set up, ministers agreed £211 million to build new homes. Only 1% of this money has been paid over.
Birmingham
and the Black Country falling behind the rest of England on key economic
indicators
Birmingham and the Black
Country (the local authority areas of Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and
Wolverhampton) are falling behind on
key economic indicators such as prosperity, productivity, employment
and skills, according to a new report.
Let me start with the argument for a Bill of Data Rights. Every so often we have to try to democratise both progress and protections. In this country we are the great writers of rights—we have been doing it since Magna Carta.